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Schamberg's disease is caused by leaky blood vessels near the surface of the skin, capillaries, which allow red blood cells to slip through into the skin. [3] The red blood cells in the skin then fall apart and release their iron, which is released from hemoglobin. [3] The iron causes a rust color and this accounts for the orange tint of the ...
Poliosis circumscripta, commonly referred to as a "white forelock", is a condition characterized by localized patches of white hair due to a reduction or absence of melanin in hair follicles. Although traditionally associated with the scalp, poliosis can affect any hairy area on the body, including eyebrows, eyelashes, and beards.
Generally, the East Asian, Central Asian and Native American population has straight hair with a very thick cuticle layer [5] and South Asians have thick, wavy or curly hair, [6] while the general hair type seen in black African hair is thick, curly and dense with more hair growing from the head. The curly quality comes from the shape of the ...
Curly bob. There’s a reason many older women choose to have chin-length hair, instead of longer tresses: “Long hair drags the eyes down, emphasizing drooping facial features,” Butterworth says.
Pheomelanin colors hair orange and red. Eumelanin, which has two subtypes of black or brown, determines the darkness of the hair color; [4] more black eumelanin leads to blacker hair and more brown eumelanin to browner hair. [6] All human hair has some amount of both pigments. [9] Over 95% of melanin content in black and brown hair is eumelanin ...
Rosacea. What it looks like: Rosacea causes redness and thick skin on the face, usually clustered in the center.Easy flushing, a stinging sensation, and small, pus-filled pimples are other common ...
Sharon Stone, 65, uses The Shampoo and The Conditioner from Augustinus Bader. She says the duo helped her with hair loss after her stroke in 2001.
Alfred Blaschko, a private practice dermatologist from Berlin, first described and drew the patterns of the lines of Blaschko in 1901. He obtained his data by studying over 140 patients with various nevoid and acquired skin diseases and transposed the visible patterns the diseases followed onto dolls and statues, then compiled the patterns onto a composite schematic of the human body.